cross-division

Updated: May 1, 2025

A cross-division will give precedence to the creations of Phidias, Alcamenes, Myron, Euphranor, and artists of that calibre, while the common inartistic jobs can be huddled together in the far corner, hold their tongues, and just make up the rank and file of our assembly. Herm. All right; they shall have their proper places.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Now that the ruler of England was an open heretic, who appeared to reject the accepted forms of Catholic belief as well as the Papal forms of Roman discipline, the hour had come to strike. War would have followed in ordinary times. But the Reformation had produced a cross-division among the subjects of all the Great Powers.

William Charles Henry Wood - Elizabethan Sea Dogs